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                        <h1><span class="highlight">Personal Statement</span></h1>
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                        My passion and interest are substantially reinforced after receiving a comprehensive schooling in computer science from one of the top five universities in China. After four years' amassing of knowledge in the field I loved, I chose to trade a secure livelihood in China with the toil of overseas study. It was a fulfilling yet risky choice, but it allowed me to continue the advancement of my knowledge and skills in this field. 
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                        While in college, I was exuberated by the experiences of developing better-performing software systems which obliged me to participate in various system design projects. Our team successfully advanced to the second round of SCORE 2011 through our special tiered architecture design and complete development cycle. Another project for Chinese Sciences Cup exposed me to numerous helpful suggestions from both academy and industry. Those competitions pushed me to improve the software step by step and made it practical enough to withstand the test of market. Indeed, all these experiences further shifted my attention from simply implementing a software product into architecting complex software systems and further strengthened my resolve to partake in the field of software engineering.
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                        At present, I became more and more fascinated in technologies involved in software architecture, software evolution and software process. I have read some publications in those fields before carrying out some practices with existing design theories. The more I read and practiced, the more I strengthened my conviction to become a competent researcher involved in software engineering or turn into a good software architect. For me, it is a fantastic area that explores approaches to design, develop and maintain complex software systems, which are disparate from simply implementing a software product. 
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                         Ultimately, I see my pursuit of Ph.D. degree as a professional stepping stone: it allows me to enjoy studying software design and related areas for its own sake, to make a difference by contributing to software engineering research community, and to continue exploring the challenges involved in the field of computer science.
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                    <h1><span class="highlight">Statement of Purpose</span></h1>
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                        Michael Jackson's quotation "The requirement is the problem in the world and the machine is the solution we construct" illustrates a cornerstone of my moral compass and above all, passion for solving real world problems with software engineering.
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                        Once ignorant to the complexity and creativity software engineering could bring, my veil of innocence was uncovered when I participated in Student Contest on Software Engineering 2011, part of ICSE 2011, as the team leader. My team developed a general map-making system to support Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games. That was the first time I engaged in the reusability goal. In order to find satisfactory answers, I researched thoroughly, reading the articles on modularization, structure design and hierarchical structure of J2EE before I designed a three-tier general system that supported multiple applications, based on a map-making kernel in the logic layer. 
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                        As I discovered more principles on software development, my passion for software engineering intensified. I took part in a software innovation competition with a mobile device application. On the back cover of their brochure were the words: "The product should be practical enough to withstand the test of the market." These words unremittingly impelled me to make progress, to improve the efficiency of data acquisition, data processing and data transmission by means of multi-thread approach as well as message mechanism.
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                        The last story is about a paper rejected by SAC 2011.
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                        Armed with my development experience in contests, knowledge from my research group and enthusiasm for process improvement, I tried to organize the knowledge and experience repository with Goal-Driven philosophy. However, the paper was rejected for lacking reliable experimental data and clear descriptions on knowledge evolution steps. This experience dawned on me that I was bound to endure hardship in the pursuit of my target. It was the brick hit on the head that illuminated the road ahead and gave me a direct guide for further improvements. Afterwards, I regulated the knowledge evolution with more restrictions through some algorithms from machine learning and text mining. I also established a prototype system for data collection. Thinking back, I was pretty sure that I loved what I did, and loved the feeling to solve problems in the real world by constructing a system with the combination of science, principle and art. 
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                        I recall Steve Jobs' words: "You've got to find what you love, stay hungry, stay foolish." Indeed, that is what I do every day, and that is exactly the reason why I choose to pursue a doctorial degree in your university.
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                        I've got to find what I love, and irresistibly, stay hungry, stay foolish.
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